Alex Estevez

C. Alex Estevez
Venture Partner
Accel

Mr. Estevez is a Venture Partner with Accel, a global leader in venture capital with past investments in top companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Facebook, Qualtrics, Slack, Squarespace and Spotify. As a Venture Partner based in South Carolina, Mr. Estevez helps existing portfolio companies based outside of Silicon Valley with their growth opportunities and scale challenges.

Mr. Estevez is also an accredited private investor in leading U.S. software companies based outside of Silicon Valley, including 1Password, BetterCloud, FullStory, Pindrop, UIPath and Webflow. He currently serves as Chairman Emeritus for Venture Atlanta, one of the top venture & entrepreneurship conferences in the country. He is also an accomplished international speaker and has recently served as a finals judge at venture pitch competitions such as eMerge (Miami), Global Ventures Summit (Luxembourg), Startup Battle (Atlanta) and SXSW (Austin – 2020).

Prior to Accel, Mr. Estevez served as CFO of Atlassian (Nasdaq: TEAM), a global leader in team collaboration software valued at over $30 billion. Prior to Atlassian, Mr. Estevez served as CFO of Silicon Valley-based BigFix (Sold to IBM) and President & CFO of South Carolina-based Datastream (Nasdaq: DSTM, Sold to Infor). Mr. Estevez earned an MBA with distinction from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor's degree with honors from Harvard College.

Mr. Estevez relocated in October 2014 from the Bay Area to Greenville, South Carolina, his wife’s hometown and his new springboard for investment and advisory opportunities outside of Silicon Valley.